Chapter 231 - 230: Sword God Domain

Now.

Before her was a narrow door.

Li Qinghe was outside.

Her Grand Master was inside.

"???"

On the other side of the door, Li Qinghe wanted to speak but hesitated. Recalling how she’d been cut off mid-sentence, she fell silent, still not quite processing what had happened.

’Did I do something wrong?’

’Why did Grand Master send me out?’

’I was so close!’

’I was just one step away from raising my seniority!’

"Was it just because I bad-mouthed that Qin guy? Is that why Grand Master sent me out?!"

Li Qinghe turned and glanced at Qin Yang and Xiaobai, immediately noticing the smirks they were struggling to contain.

Qin Yang and the little girl were watching her with amusement, the smiles on their faces impossible to suppress!!

"Hmph! Go ahead and laugh if you want. I can take it! I’ll definitely succeed in making Grand Master my master!"

Li Qinghe tossed her head with a low huff, ignored them, and walked toward the guest room again, preparing to push the door open.

But just then, Qin Yang moved faster, stepping forward to block the doorway. He stood in her way and asked, "What do you think you’re doing, going back in there now?"

"To become... Pfft, pfft, pfft..."

"To ask Grand Master to teach me Arrays! It was so hard just to get a chance to meet him. There must be some kind of misunderstanding."

Li Qinghe timidly took two steps back, not daring to mention becoming his disciple. She could only mutter, "I... I still have to ask him for guidance on Arrays..."

"That’s enough."

Qin Yang interrupted with a smile, not bothering with her little schemes.

"It’s no use going in. Your Grand Master has already told you to leave. Besides, he just sent me a message. He wants me to pass the Cultivation Technique to you on his behalf."

"You’ll teach me?"

Hearing this, Li Qinghe was immediately displeased. "The Arrays you teach couldn’t possibly be as good as Grand Master’s, could they?"

With that, she tried to push past him toward the door again.

Her temper was flaring up...

"Hm? Got an attitude?"

Qin Yang’s brow furrowed slightly upon hearing this.

’She’s throwing a tantrum?!’

The Jianghai Li Family was naturally stubborn. Whether it was Li Zixuan or Li Qinghe, that bullheadedness was practically embedded in their genes.

Once they set their minds on something, it was very difficult to get them to change course.

However, ’I can still handle her!’

"Li Qinghe!"

At that thought, Qin Yang’s voice dropped to a low reprimand. He wouldn’t indulge her. "Your Grand Master has already spoken," he threatened directly. "Are you determined to go in and get a scolding?

If you make him angry, do you want to be expelled from the sect?!"

As the words fell, the series of questions boomed like thunder, like the tolling of an ancient bell.

Li Qinghe trembled and took two steps back. Her gaze fixed on the door in front of her, she froze on the spot...

Expulsion from the sect.

’That’s my greatest weakness!’

’I’ve been preparing for this meeting for so long.’

’All this carefully prepared makeup, these clothes, and I even spent a fortune to travel all the way to the Great Prairie to find Wumu Gold... and this is the result?’

’If I not only fail to learn his techniques but also get expelled from the sect...’

’Wouldn’t that mean it’s all over?!’

The more she thought about it, the worse she felt, but there was nothing she could do. Li Qinghe returned to the sofa and sat down, dejected. Her entire demeanor visibly deflated.

"Alright.

Don’t be sad, my disciple."

Seeing her distress, Qin Yang took an Array Map from his Star Ring and placed it on the coffee table in front of her.

"When it comes to Grand Master’s words, I always carry them out myself and would never be careless with you. Take this Array back and comprehend it. It will surely give you a new understanding of your Realm."

As he spoke, the ancient Array Map on the coffee table lit up. Profound patterns interweaved, producing a faint mirage that seemed to be connected to the Heaven and Earth Laws.

The Feng Shui Spirit Array of Fuhai District hummed in resonance.

It even seemed to be centering itself around the map...

"This is...?"

Li Qinghe sniffled, looking at Qin Yang uncertainly. "Master... you’re giving me another Array Map?"

"The Array I gave you last time was destroyed during the Beast Tide, wasn’t it?"

Qin Yang smiled calmly and patted the Array Map on the table. "I got you a new one! You can think of it as an upgraded version of the last one. It even has some of the Laws of the Heart of Array Dao condensed within it. Go back and comprehend it, and you’re guaranteed to gain something!"

"The Heart of Array Dao?"

Hearing this, Li Qinghe’s eyes widened instantly.

This was the legendary Law Spiritual Charm! Every Array Dao Grandmaster had heard of its profundity, and many even considered finding it to be their lifelong goal, searching for it their entire lives.

’And now this Qin guy is just giving it away?!’

’Grand Master just gave me a few perfunctory words and then threw me out... What’s so great about the Jianghai Sword God? He’s not as good to me as this Qin guy...’

"So nice!"

Li Qinghe picked up the Array Map, put it in her pocket, and sidled up to Qin Yang. "Master, you’re still the best to me!"

"..."

Qin Yang was speechless.

’Thinking about how she was just bad-mouthing me.’

’One face in public, another in private!’

’This little girl is two-faced, huh?’

’I was thinking of having her stay for dinner, but it seems that’s completely unnecessary now...’

"Alright, you’ve seen your Grand Master. Are you satisfied now?"

Qin Yang’s eyes narrowed slightly. He sat cross-legged on the sofa and directly gave her the order to leave. "Hurry home and comprehend it. I need to meditate now."

With that, he called toward the kitchen:

"Xiaobai, come see our guest out!"

"Oh, okay, Master..."

In the kitchen, Xiaobai silently pulled back the hand that was about to add salt to the rice. She scampered out, her eyes full of regret as she looked at Li Qinghe.

’So close...’

’I was about to put salt in that bad woman’s food.’

’Darn it!’

"I... But..."

Li Qinghe hesitated, looking at Qin Yang who was already settling into meditation on the sofa. "I haven’t paid my respects yet..."

"Let’s go!"

Xiaobai pushed her from behind, urging, "Don’t disturb Master!"

In just a moment, the two of them arrived at the courtyard gate.

Before leaving, at the gate, Li Qinghe patted Xiaobai’s head and whispered:

"Don’t worry, little sister. Just endure it for now. When your big sister gets stronger, I’ll definitely get you out of this place. I’ll rescue you."

"??? Rescue this Fairy?"

Xiaobai looked up with her innocent little eyes and shook off her hand. "Master is the best to me! None of you are allowed to take him from me."

BANG!

The gate slammed shut!

"???"

Li Qinghe, having had the door slammed in her face, was stunned for a moment.

’Me, compete with you for him?’

’A hostage falling in love with her captor...’

’Isn’t this just Stockholm Syndrome!’

"It’s over! That poor little sister!"

"She’s been completely broken by that Qin guy!!"

...

...

「As night fell.」

The moon was bright and the stars were few. Wisps of thin clouds drifted across the sky. A cold wind blew through the courtyard, and in the distance, the city’s neon lights dwindled.

"It’s about time."

After seeing Li Qinghe off, Qin Yang went into the courtyard. He summoned the Ziwei Divine Sword, which circled around him protectively. The clear ring of the sword echoed in his ears.

In an instant, Sword Qi crisscrossed the courtyard, yet not a single blade of grass or tree was harmed.

His control over Sword Qi was absolute. Qin Yang’s Sword Intent had now reached the Transformation Realm.

Moreover, ever since his last visit to the library, he had not neglected the Cultivation Techniques he learned there.

Right now, within his Enlightenment Space, countless figures flickered, performing thousands of Cultivation Techniques—legs, fists, blades, swords, palms... They were deducing all sorts of techniques, every single one a Martial Arts Cultivation Technique of the Grandmaster Level or higher.

Progressing layer by layer, by now, Qin Yang had drawn inferences from one case to another, surpassing his original teachers. He had already created many Grandmaster Level Martial Arts, and some had even reached the Peak of Grandmaster.

If he were to go out and establish his own sect in the future, it would be no problem at all.

Moreover, and more importantly, the Fusion Skill combining One Sword Opens the Celestial Gate and the Heaven-Slaying Sword Drawing Technique had finally been completely deduced.

At this moment, thousands of streams of Sword Qi surged through the courtyard, like a gale-force wind whipping and churning...

"HUUUU—"

Qin Yang took a deep breath, inhaling and exhaling thousands of streams of Sword Qi, containing them within his Dantian before slowly breathing them out again.

With a single inhalation and exhalation, thousands of streams of Sword Qi were set in motion!

"Now is the time."

Qin Yang’s eyes snapped open as he took one last deep breath.

BOOM—

The Space Law condensed the thousands of streams of Sword Qi, gathering them all inside his body.

An invisible "Domain" spread outward.

The next moment.

BOOM!

Qin Yang’s clothes disintegrated and fell to the ground as his physical body vanished into thin air. He had transformed into thousands of streams of Sword Qi that burst from his body, swimming freely throughout the courtyard.

Within this Domain, enemies would no longer be able to track him. They could only face the endless Sword Qi. He had entered the Dao with his body, transforming Qi into divinity.

’Not bad. In that case, I’ll call it the Sword God Domain...’

VMMMM—

The Ziwei Divine Sword chased after the Sword Qi, letting out a joyful ring. With it at the lead, a certain signal slowly began to radiate outward.

Meanwhile, several miles away, on this night, ten thousand swords in the city began to ring in unison.

The metallic vibrations traveled for hundreds of miles.

The longswords of countless Sword Cultivator Star Martial Artists began to vibrate, their intense humming seeming to celebrate the arrival of an unfathomable existence. Everyone stared at the swords in their hands in shock.

"What’s going on?!"

......

「Jianghai Martial Arts Academy, Tengfei Building.」

Elder Li was scrolling through his phone, arguing with the Jianghai Sword God’s haters online.

As the number one old fanboy of the senior Sword God, he, despite his advanced age, still held the line on the internet front, personally patrolling the forums.

Any haters he found were resolutely rooted out.

However, what Elder Li was thankful for was that a certain head hater had vanished without a trace and never reappeared.

"Heh, a mere scoundrel!"

Elder Li put down his phone, stroked his white beard, and nodded in satisfaction. He took a sip of clear tea and chuckled.

"Nothing more than that."

Suddenly!

The sword at his side began to hum.

A violent tremor suddenly ran through it. Outside the window, the sound of ringing swords rose up, making the midnight air boil.

The clang of striking metal reached his ears!

"This is?!"

Elder Li’s eyes widened. He sensed the strange phenomenon but couldn’t quite process it.

Just then, BANG!

The office door burst open, and Lin Mofeng strode into the room.

The two made eye contact.

"Teacher, you felt it too?"

Lin Mofeng clutched his own sword, trying to suppress his excitement. "The entire city is filled with the sound of ringing swords!"

"What is happening...?"

Elder Li walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and stared out at the city in shock, his ears filled with the sound of ringing metal.

The entire city of swords was humming and vibrating—it was a carnival for Swordsmen!

"A great expert is causing the swords to ring!"

Lin Mofeng said, "It must be an expert inducing the swords to resonate! There’s a hidden Dao charm within it that can bring about immense enlightenment and breakthroughs!"

"But why?"

Elder Li was completely bewildered, too shocked to speak.

To make all the swords in the city ring would require an unimaginable amount of Star Force—as vast as mountains and seas, a ravine that could not be filled.

’Making all the swords in the city ring, just to help others achieve enlightenment and breakthroughs?!’

’Such a grand gesture... it’s just too outrageous!!’

...

「Meanwhile, in a hidden chamber on the back mountain of the Jianghai Martial Arts Academy.」

Dead vines swayed in the wind. Moonlight streamed down from a small hole in the ceiling, illuminating scriptures carved on the stone walls.

"..."

Li Zixuan sat cross-legged with her sword across her knees, her eyes lowered to the incessantly humming blade.

She seemed to feel something in her heart.

She could already sense a trace of Dao charm within it...

A breakthrough was imminent.